Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — HOME TWON HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TWON HELPS

PROPER PLANNING OF CITIES Method Has a Deeper Significance Than the Mere Laying dot of Human Dwelling Places. “I am very glad to hear that among the objects of the American Civic association is that of getting rid of the Impression that city planning has mainly to do with the large cities of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, and indeed that is not solely concerned with these cities, but that one of the main functions of city planning is to deal with the small town and even with the small village community,” so said Mr. Thomas Adams, the wellknown English town planning expert, now civic adviser to the commission of conservation of Canada, in opening at* address at the convention of the American Civic association on the subject, “The Economic Basis of City Planning.” Continuing, Mr. Adams said: “Town planning does not deal with the beautification of the town but town planning, I should rather like to put it, includes the embellishment of the external features of the town both in regard to Its public buildings and In regard to its transportation. But these matters are only part of what should! be properly regarded as city planning. And when -we come to analyze the fundamental things in city life we find that really we ought not to begin with the embellishment or with the beautiful in the city, but that after the route of civil life, the two things that matter are the industrial_and the residential; are the factories and home life. You want not only to look forward for the next thirty, forty, or fifty years in regard to your park systems, but you want to make sure that in the next forty, fifty or sixty years every person who builds a new home will be secured against disease which may be created by anything that can be prn* vented. You want to make sure that the conditions shall be healthy in regard to housing as well as in regard to the general civic aspect of the city.”